Goodbye to one of the Greats: Constance Baker Motley, 1921-2005

If you don’t read any other post today, go and read this remembrance of Judge Constance Baker Motley, written by one of her former clerks.

Judge Motley, among many other accomplishments, was the first Black woman to be accepted at Columbia University Law School; the only woman on the legal team that won Brown v. Board of Education; the first Black woman elected to the New York State Senate; and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.